I hope that the first cover album will be released in the near future.

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But I'd be much more interested in him releasing original unreleased songs, like perhaps what he worked on with Shirley Manson, whatever MM and Jonathan Davis may have worked on a few years ago. Whatever he made for his Lost Celebritarian album in 2005, and also include unreleased covers. All on one big amazing Box Set of unreleased material.

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But I'd be much more interested in him releasing original unreleased songs, like perhaps what he worked on with Shirley Manson

That IS what he worked on with Shirley Manson lol. They covered The Human League's "Don't You Want Me?" But neither of them were satisfied with the finished product, so it was never released.

I'd love to hear Manson's cover of The Doors' "Not To Touch the Earth". I THINK it was technically a Hollywood Vampires recording, but didn't make the final cut of their album. But there is that live snippet on YouTube of Manson and Johnny Depp performing it.

He's already said it will be on the NEXT Hollywood Vampires album, fwiw.

And it's one of my absolute favorite songs by The Doors so I'm REALLLLY looking forward to it! One of my friends saw it live in person, told me it made them think of me, and then completely neglected to even take a pic let alone record any of it because they were too busy schmoozing during the song, lolwtfkillmenow.

Anyway, an all-covers album would be amazing.

Same goes for an all-acoustic album.

In the meantime, even I know how to assemble a playlist and/or make a mixtape and burn a CD, lol.

I wouldn't want it to get in the way of a full original album, but I would definitely be in favour of a digital only release of all his covers, new and old, and god knows he has done more than most.
I mean Manson has often discussed projects that end up being thrown out, so there is presumably more covers out there that we don't even know about.
I remember when his version of 'In The Ghetto' was released, I'd never heard anything about that before.

Years ago when this suggestion came up frequently I felt he was prudent to focus on his own releases and not get stuck being associated with covers foremost.
Since the success of Sweet Dreams, Manson's been very careful to use covers sparingly and often as a tool to promote a greater work. Releasing ...Dreams so soon off the back of Portrait Of An American Family, whilst specifying it was part of an EP, and then unleashing The Beautiful People onto the world was clever, he didn't rely on the acclaim of ...Dreams long enough for it to define his career, and already had something more bombastic to showcase the band's original songwriting.

I think he's steadily taken a similar approach on almost every album since, there's always a cover somewhere to support the original work, making it easier for people to associate him with pop culture at large, and still fuel his personal canon. A covers collection would be a good shout at this stage, although probably only as an additional part of another retrospective. The problem with that, is that he's not been on one single label for the past ten years, so there's a lot of licensing involved, and I'd wager many of the covers he's done since leaving Interscope have been through different outlets also (especially for films).

As @Hazekiah suggests, making yourself a nifty playlist is probably a good idea.